hole on each side. To the marking of sections a similar mound is
erected, only of smaller dimensions.

The sections are numbered as shown by the following diagram:--

N
+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| 30 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
W +----+----+----+----+----+----+ E
| 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+
S


The Townships are numbered in regular order northerly from the
International Boundary line or 49th parallel of latitude, and lie
in ranges numbered east and west from a certain meridian line,
drawn northerly from the said 49th parallel, from a point ten
miles or thereabouts westward of Pembina.

When the Government took over the territory from the Hudson Bay
Company in 1870, two entire sections in every fifth township and